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produce; also placing it too far from the house of the European who supervises their 
work. 
(ii) . Getting Hong Kong loafers instead of country people. 
(iii) . Giving assistance in money. Tokens should be used instead, and certain 
shops authorised to accept these tokens for food, clothing or tobacco ; the opium shops 
should of course not be included. 
(iv) . A man's maintenance money should be stopped after one warning, should 
his work not be satisfactory, and the settlers should be made to understand clearly 
from the first that this rule will be strictly carried out. 
(v) . Giving too small a quantity of land. I consider that each family should 
get at least ten acres. No Chinaman will take an interest in the country for one acre , 
the original Kudat Hakkas were got to take up work in earnest by being promised 
as much land as they could work and a reserve of as much again, so that they might 
have land for their relations when they were able to afford to get them down from 
China. 
The success of the Kudat settlement was in a great measure due to the liberal 
way in which the Hakkas were treated in the matter of land after 1883. The Chinese 
strongly object to taking land on a rent, and the first thousand settlers should be 
allowed to buy land at $> 1 per acre. 
I am, &c., 
G. L. DAVIES. 
XVIII. 
Order in Council No. 17 of 1889. 
BENDANG LAND, KUALA KANGSAR. 
Passed by His Highness the Sultan of Perak in Council on the 19th day of 
February, 1889. 
HUGH LOW, British Resident. 
1. The Government of Perak, being desirous of encouraging the cultivation of 
“bendang” land in the district of Kuala Kangsar, it is hereby notified that, in cases 
where a sufficiently large community of natives are willing to open up a tract of forest 
for the cultivation of u bendangs/’ it shall be lawful for the Collector and Magistrate to 
release the said land from quit-rent for three years. 
2. In such cases it shall be necessary for the-peopl£ who apply for the land 
to enter into an agreement before the Penghulu that they will bring the land into 
bona fide cultivation within three years of the date of agreement. The land can then 
be allotted to the applicants by order of the Collector and Magistrate, and permits 
issued. 
3. In case of any applicant failing to cultivate his allotment, the land may, by 
the Penghulu's order in writing, be cultivated by other members of the community, all 
expenses incurred in opening it up, other than that of actual planting, being borne by 
the defaulter, and being recoverable from him by the Penghulu as an ordinary debt. 
The crops shall be the property of the persons who planted them. 
4. At the termination of the three years, should he still fail to cultivate the 
land, it shall be sold by auction, and the proceeds, if any, after payment of compen- 
sation to the person entitled for permanent improvements, be confiscated' to Govern- 
ment. 
5. Any portion of the land being allowed to revert to jungle after it has once 
been brought under cultivation may be sold by auction, on an order from the Collector 
and Magistrate, after it has stood fallow during one padi season, and the proceeds of 
the sale confiscated to Government, the condition of the sale being that the purchaser 
becomes subject to these rules. 
By Command of the Council of State, 
W. H. TREACHER, 
Kuala Kangsar, Secretary to Government . 
igth February , 1889. 
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Laud may be released 
from quit rent for three 
years. 
Applicants to enter into 
an agreement. 
Procedure on failure to 
cultivate an allotment. 
After three years un- 
cultivated allotment 
may he sold. 
Land reverting to jungle 
may he sold. 
